Horizontal and vertical distribution of Chaetognatha in the upper 1000m of the western Sargasso Sea and the Central and South-east Atlantic

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 24-26, 2010, Pages 2189-2198

  Pierrot Bults, Annelies C ^a   Nair, Vijayalakshmi R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Atlantic distribution; Chaetognatha; Epipelagic abundance; Mesopelagic abundance

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC DISTRIBUTION; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; CHAETOGNATHA; EPIPELAGIC ABUNDANCE; MESOPELAGIC; NORTHWEST ATLANTIC; PACIFICA; SAGITTA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTILIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

OCEAN HABITATS;

ABUNDANCE; BATHYMETRY; PHOTIC ZONE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); SARGASSO SEA;

CHAETOGNATHA; EUKROHNIA; EUKROHNIA FOWLERI; FEROSAGITTA HISPIDA; KROHNITTA MUTABBII; KROHNITTA PACIFICA; KROHNITTA SUBTILIS; MESOSAGITTA MINIMA; PTEROSAGITTA DRACO; SAGITTA ENFLATA; SAGITTA ZETESIOS; SERRATOSAGITTA TASMANICA;

EID: 78649443998     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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